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 Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a U.S. national lakeshore located on the "little finger" of the lower peninsula of Michigan in Leelanau County and Benzie County.
Impressed by the mother bear's determination and faith, the Great Spirit created two islands (North and South Manitou Island) to commemorate the cubs, and the winds buried the sleeping bear under the sands of the dunes where she waits to this day.
The park is named after the Chippewa legend of the sleeping bear.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sleeping_Bear_Dunes_National_Lakeshore   (354 words)

  
 GORP - Wide Awake on Lake Michigan - Four Hikes Along Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes
The Lake Michigan coastal region is dune country, a showcase of 275,000 acres of freshwater sand dunes, a large percentage of which are found within the boundaries of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Located in a ravine between two forested dunes, the facility is an escape from the noise and bustle of the park's busy tourist season in midsummer; yet the campground still lies near the three main attractions of Sleeping Bear Dunes.
Trails in Sleeping Bear often climb one hundred feet or more to scenic vistas, where you can gaze over the rugged coastline to the islands out on Lake Michigan or, if you time it right, toward a sunset melting into a watery horizon.
gorp.away.com /gorp/publishers/countryman/hik_mi.htm   (872 words)

  
 Lansing State Journal:Sleeping Bear Dunes offer history lesson
About four hours northwest of Lansing, the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a national landmark, protected by the federal government.
According to the Chippewa Indian legend, a mother bear and her cubs swam from a raging forest fire on the Wisconsin shoreline.
After the bears swam for hours, the mother bear reached the Michigan shore to watch and wait for her cubs.
www.lsj.com /news/schools/040708_daytrip_4b.html   (714 words)

  
 Geology of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Bedrock subcrop that underlies the area of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (SLBE) is shown on Milstein (1987) as the Devonian Traverse Group with a fringe of overlying Antrim Shale along the southeastern margin of the area.
Dunes occur in the lowland embayments along Platte Bay, Sleeping Bear Bay, Good Harbor Bay, and Empire, and in perched positions on glacial uplands of Empire Bluffs, Sleeping Bear Plateau, and Pyramid Point.
Therefore the characteristic topography of the Sleeping Bear region was fashioned during this time.
www2.nature.nps.gov /geology/parks/slbe   (7186 words)

  
 The Homestead Swap
As such, the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and its sister parks are among the purest manifestations of American Democracy.
That ideal is embodied in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, which the federal Government purchased and permanently set aside for its beauty, ecological value, and cultural importance.
Cited the 1970 National Lakeshore enabling statute, in which the Park Service was directed to administer Sleeping Bear Dunes "in a manner which provides for recreational opportunities consistent with the maximum protection for the natural environment."
www.mlui.org /pubs/specialreports/specialrep.dunes/duneswap.html   (6657 words)

  
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is 25 miles west of Traverse City, six hours from Detroit.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a worthwhile day trip.
To learn about the formation of sand dunes and the ecology of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, click here.
detroit.citysearch.com /feature/21865   (295 words)

  
 The Road Guide: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Sleeping Bear Dunes): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
Lakeshore ear Dune As the legend plays out, it is the land that claims the mother bear, symbolically sleeping on a perched dune overlooking her cubs, who are transformed into the Manitou Islands.
Sleeping Bear Dunes is a life-long inspiration and spirit rekindler for me. The Legend of Sleeping Bear, so beautifully told by Grand Traverse Ottawa and Chippewa Tribe member, Kenny Pheasant, immediately reveals the Native American respect for the power of the basic elements -fire, water and land.
The Sleeping Bear Dune, estimated to be 2,000 years old, has long been a regional landmark, first to the Native Americans as they traveled from camp to hunting grounds and then by early French explorers traveling the coast of Lake Michigan.
www.usaflightinsurance.com /books-reviewed/0966531604.html   (998 words)

  
 Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau ~ Sleeping Bear Dunes
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a living demonstration of the forces that shape our planet, from the distant past, to the present day.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was created by an act of Congress in 1970 and made part of the National Park Service.
The national lakeshore, located 23 miles west of Traverse City, covers more than 70,000 acres, including massive sand dunes, seven major watersheds, four stream corridors, 20 inland lakes, beech and maple forests, two islands and the remains of more than 50 shipwrecks.
www.mytraversecity.com /dunes   (449 words)

  
 Worldisround - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore - Scenery in Harbor Springs photos
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakehore is roughly a 30 minute drive from Traverse City Michigan.
One of the Steep bluffs at Sleeping Bear Dunes.
While their are dunes the entire length of Lake Michigan on the Michigan side, these are some of the most spectacular and steepest on the Lake.
www.worldisround.com /articles/47896   (158 words)

  
 Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Encyclopedia.com
One of the trails that crosses a sand dune in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore along Lake Michigan, west of Traverse City, Michigan, is shown.
Cougar sightings have been reported in Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore which encompasses a 35-mile stretch of Lake Michigan's eastern coastline.
Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes a giant playground for all ages.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-S1leeping.asp   (379 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, national lakeshore established in 1977, originally authorized in 1970.
View map of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
MSN Encarta - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761589136/Sleeping_Bear_Dunes_National_Lakeshore.html   (117 words)

  
 Senator Carl Levin: News Release
"Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a spectacular natural wonder that even the astronauts now aboard the space shuttle, Atlantis, can enjoy from space," said Levin.
In 1986, the Homestead Resort announced plans to construct a golf course along the Crystal River in Leelanau County adjacent to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
The legislation changes the boundary of Sleeping Bear Dunes to allow for the purchase and inclusion of over 104 acres of property along the Crystal River.
www.senate.gov /member/mi/levin/general/newsroom/release.cfm?id=210032   (371 words)

  
 Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Sleeping Bear Dunes is a thin strip of lakeshore about 35 miles long at the northwest corner of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, near Traverse City.
It's worth a trip: both for the dunes themselves -- which, being glacial till rather than beach sand, have a shape quite different from ordinary dunes -- and for the (fragile) beach/dune ecosystem, which reveals many interesting things to the patient observer.
Below the deck the dune drops straight to the water at what appears to be the angle of repose of the sand (something like 45 degrees or more).
www.astro.uiuc.edu /~pmricker/interests/outdoors/sleepbear.html   (891 words)

  
 BHL Research Topics: Sleeping Bear Dunes
The issues involved in the creation of Sleeping Bear National Shoreline can be traced in the papers of politicians and environmental activists, local newspapers, government publications, and publications of conservation organizations.
Sleeping Bear National Seashore: A Proposal, U.S. Dept. of Interior, 1965.
The effort to have the dunes protected as part of a national shoreline was one of the major environmental controversies of the 1960s and 1970s.
www.umich.edu /~bhl/bhl/topics/sbdunes.htm   (360 words)

  
 Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com
What: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is located in northwestern lower Michigan along the eastern Lake Michigan shoreline about 25 miles west of Traverse City.
Sleeping Bear Dunes encompasses 71,000 acres, 64 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, north and south Manitou Islands, numerous inland lakes, woods, old farmland, sand beaches, massive sand dunes and rugged bluffs rising to 450 feet above Lake Michigan.
The first mention of the Sleeping Bear Dune in print was by the French explorer Charlevoix in 1772, according to park superintendent Dusty Shultz, and the legend first appeared in 1912.
www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2004/11/27/your_saturday/one_tank_trip/b00e81f1eb7680f586256f560021905c.txt   (1341 words)

  
 Wildernet - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Description - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was designated to protect the diverse landscape along Lake Michigan's shoreline and the two wilderness islands, North and South Manitou.
Most folks visit this national park to view the beautiful dunes but quickly realize there is much more including a 1871 lighthouse, three former Life-Saving Service/Coast Guard Stations, an extensive rural historic farm district, Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire, Michigan, and the Maritime Museum.
We chose not to take that path as the we were having fun on the front dune which was close to our car and restrooms.
www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaID=MISLBE&CU_ID=1   (924 words)

  
 Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore with approximately 35 miles of shoreline, beautiful sand dunes, over 100 miles of hiking trails, and two Lake Michigan islands is located in the Northwest corner of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
Whether you live in the area or are visiting, we invite you to join us in preserving the natural beauty and cultural heritage here at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Glen Lake from the Dune Trail to Lake Michigan.
www.friendsofsleepingbear.org   (208 words)

  
 Sleeping Bear Dunes NL, MI General Management Plan - Superintendent's Note
Public Law 97-361, a 1982 amendment to the Lakeshore's enabling legislation, directed the National Park Service to maintain the existing wilderness character of the areas identified in the 1981 Wilderness Recommendation.
It is important to note that approximately 30,000 acres of the Lakeshore have been managed as wilderness for many years.
The Lakeshore has on file and available for review, the public comments from Newsletter 4 and all previous GMP newsletters.
planning.nps.gov /parkweb/default.cfm?RecordID=75   (687 words)

  
 Backpacker.com - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore- Print View
The mainland section of the national lakeshore comprises approximately two-thirds of the park's 71,134 acres.
Mother bear finally reached the opposite shore and climbed to the top of a bluff to watch and wait for her offspring.
The trail entered the rolling dunes from a grove of jack pines, skirted a brush-choked swale, and ended at the pounding surf of Lake Michigan a half-mile away.
www.backpacker.com /article/1,2646,1022_P,00.html   (1197 words)

  
 Life Along the Manitou Passage / Credits
On the northwestern shore of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, in Leelanau and Benzie Counties, lies the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
The Lakeshore encompasses numerous small lakes and rivers (perfect for fishing), sugar sand beaches and, of course, the massive coastal sand dunes and bluffs.
The Sleeping Bear is an area unlike any other, over 50,000 acres along Lake Michigan replete with hills and forests of birch, pine, beech and maple.
www.schoolship.org /maritime/credits.html   (444 words)

  
 Sleeping Bear Dunes Weekend
The campsite is part of the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore and I suppose you can call it rustic which means no nice spiffy stuff you might find at a place like, ugh, a KOA.
The Sleeping Bear Dune view though was impressive and we want to go back to that and hike down to the beach at the bottom (400 some feet down on a steep dune slope) to enjoy the Lake there.
We had chosen to do a 3 or so mile hike (felt like more) from the entrance of the Sleeping Bear Dune park to a beach on the other side which fronted on the Lake.
www.wanderingknight.org /travels/sleeping_bear_dunes/sleeping_bear_dunes.html   (1304 words)

  
 Legend of the Sleeping Bear
Sleeping Bear Dunes are a type of dune system called "perched dunes".
This picture of the Sleeping Bear dune, as it appeared in the early 1700's, shows its striking resemblance to a sleeping bear.
Longingly, a mother bear and two famished cubs walked the shore on the Wisconsin side, gazing wistfully across the great lake at Michigan, which in those days was the land of plenty (as it is today).
www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/bearlegend.html   (304 words)

  
 TravelHERO.com - SLEEPING BEAR DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE, MICHIGAN Hotels and Hotel Reservations
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Sleeping Bear Dunes is 30 to 45 minutes from Traverse City, Michigan, on the Northwestern shore of Michigan's lower pennisula.
A Chippewa Indian legend named Sleeping Bear Dunes, for a large dune on shore as a mother bear waiting and watching for her two cubs to swim ashore.
www.holidayhero.com /destinations/park.cfm/parkname/SLEEPING_BEAR_DUNES_NATIONAL_LAKESHORE,_MICHIGAN   (800 words)

  
 Michigan Humanities Council :: Press Releases
The Port Oneida Rural Historic District is a region in the northern section of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, approximately five miles north of Glen Arbor.
LANSING—On August 8 and 9, the public is invited to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore for the Port Oneida Fair, which will celebrate northwest Michigan& cultural history and rural traditions.
For more information, please visit http://www.leelanau.com/fair or call the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Visitors Center at 231-326-5134.
www.h-net.msu.edu /~mihum/news/pressreleases/073103.htm   (1046 words)

  
 World Heritage - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore - Mark Houston - World Wide Panorama
Offering spectacular panoramic vistas of Lake Michigan and the surrounding area, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is one of the most beautiful and truly unique places in Michigan.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Glen Arbor, Michigan
Created in 1970 by the National Park Service, this park preserves that natural and cultural features at are unique to this part of Michigan.
geoimages.berkeley.edu:16080 /wwp604/html/MarkHouston.html   (162 words)

  
 MountainZone.com
This trail is undoubtedly the most popular and famous hike in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore; or, at least, the...
The Bay View Hiking Trail is one of the longer trails in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, made up of four sep...
Hiking and cross-country skiing trails in the inland portion of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
www.mountainzone.com /trails/activity.asp?AreaID={62710439-1164-11D4-9BD6-00104BC9463C}&OrderBy=TrailName   (443 words)

  
 Sleeping Bear Dunes Project
The GIS of the Sleeping Bear Dunes Test Site (a NASA test site) was expanded to include the entire area of the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes National Lakeshore.
A copy has been delibered to the National Park Service at Empire, and they are pleased to have it.
A cooperative project with the National Park Service, The Leelanau School and us is the way this is developing.
esa.snre.umich.edu /projects/dunes_proj.html   (267 words)

  
 June 2003 - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
The national lakeshore, established in 1970, protects 35 miles of dunes - the highest 480 feet above the lake- that are the product of several glacial advances and retreats that ended 11,000 years ago.
Located on the western coast of Michigan's Lower Peninusla, Route 22 runs through the national lakeshore from south to north, connected by US 31 from the east.
The mother bear continued to the shore and climbed a high bluff to wait for her cubs who couldn't make it and drowned within sight of shore.
www.hikewithyourdog.com /ParksoftheMonth/June2003.html   (468 words)

  
 L.L.Bean: Park Search - Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore protects Michigan's eastern coastline, a 35-mile stretch of coastal sand dunes and dotted with clear lakes, birch-lined streams, dense beech-maple forests and high rising bluffs.
Climbing to the top of Sleeping Bear Dunes at the Dune Climb is strenuous but rewarding.
The North and South Manitou islands, tranquil and secluded, are also part of the National Lakeshore.
www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/15566gd.htm   (294 words)

  
 Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (11 sq mi/28 sq km), Leelanau and Benzie cos., W central Mich.; 44°53'N 86°03'W. Sect.
of the L. Michigan shoreline and the North and South Manitou isls.; beaches, sand dunes (elev.
www.bartleby.com /69/89/S12689.html   (91 words)

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